Sentences with phrase «term use of these drugs»

«Long - term use of drugs to curb acid reflux linked to doubling in stomach cancer risk: Risk rose in tandem with dose and duration of proton pump inhibitor (PPI) treatment.»
An observational study conducted by German scientists in 2014 suggests that long - term use of this drug may protect against dementia.
The long - term use of these drugs increases stroke risk, but amazingly, the cherries reduced the risk of stroke when they were administered with the PPAR agonists.
The findings are that high doses or long - term use of these drugs may increase the risk for hip, wrist, and spine fractures by about 25 % and can more than double the risk of contracting the intestinal bacterium Clostridium difficile.
«Long - term use of drugs or using the body of a dog or cat for poisons for fleas and ticks, we think that's unethical,» she said.
Because there is no cure for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, long - term use of these drugs is used to control symptoms.

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Your own health habits — especially in terms of diet, weight, activity (or lack thereof)-- and choices around smoking, drinking and drug use, are arguably even more important predictors, said certified financial planner Carolyn McClanahan, who is also a medical doctor.
To combat the activities of Mexican, Central American, and South American transnational criminal organizations — including illicit finance and money laundering activities and the flow of illegal drugs — the FBI works side - by - side with its numerous domestic and international partners to infiltrate, disrupt, and dismantle these groups by targeting their leadership and using sensitive investigative and intelligence techniques in long - term, proactive investigations.
Third, he states: «Not too long ago Christians and non-Christians alike believed that what is today referred to as «alcoholism» or «drug addition» --» chemical dependency» — was the consequence of the regular and long - term «sinful» use of alcohol and drugs.
The worst prospect of legalization is that it might lead to a short - term increase in the use of drugs, due to availability, lower prices and the sudden freedom from prosecution.
What drug experiences, interpreted in oriental religious terms, as Leary and Alpert did quite early, and meditation experiences, often taken up when drug use was found to have too many negative consequences, showed was the illusoriness of worldly striving.
It is a term used by people grasping at straws to continue dismissing evolution even as the evidence builds faster than ever at the gene sequencing level (ie, most of you agree that drug resistant bacteria have evolved but the term MACRO evolution is misused intentionally so you could continue to dismiss science to save faith; pun intended).
When inflammation strikes, we are conditioned into reaching for a quick fix in the way of pharmaceutical or prescribed drugs such as aspirin and ibuprofen, temporary panacea's that come with their own adverse side effects and with long term use have the potential to create a host of health problems independently.
In comments submitted to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) called on the agency to more clearly define the use of the term «natural» in food labeling.
The American Academy of Pediatrics advises against the use of marijuana during pregnancy and while breastfeeding: «Street drugs such as PCP (phencyclidine), cocaine, and cannabis can be detected in human milk, and their use by breastfeeding mothers is of concern, particularly with regard to the infant's long - term neurobehavioral development and thus are contraindicated.»
Drugs used in active management have documented risks for the mother, including death, and we do not know the long - term effects of these drugs, which are given at a critical stage of brain development, for the Drugs used in active management have documented risks for the mother, including death, and we do not know the long - term effects of these drugs, which are given at a critical stage of brain development, for the drugs, which are given at a critical stage of brain development, for the baby.
Though the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says that melamine is safe up to 1 part per million in baby formula, many are concerned over what the long - term consequences of using this chemical in baby formula could be.
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So a 34 year old primagravida with no past medical history other than allergic rhinitis and wisdom tooth extraction (with excellent hemostasis after the procedure), who is a vegetarian, exercised regularly throughout pregnancy, had normal glucose and blood pressure throughout pregnancy, good fetal heart tones, a singleton head down baby, no family history of significant birth issues, no alcohol or drug use at all, and a 7 - 8 pound estimated fetus at term is someone you'd take on as a home birth client?
However, since CNMs are trained as advanced practice nurses, and are under «doctor supervision» they can «do» more in terms of using drugs for pain relief, some kinds of well - woman care, even in some instances assisting at cesarean births, depending on the state and the physician they work with / for.
Show them these statistics, and that drug use is declining as more information on the long term harm of chemical dependency becomes widely available.
And it comes as part of long - term decline in drug use, from 18.3 % in 1998.
It classifies drugs using a risk assessment matrix, which covers nine types of term divided between physical harm, dependence and social harms.
@Thunderforge «Warmongering» is a general purpose term typically used as in a form of accusation (I don't remember any instance when it was used together with «war on drugs» though).
The use of harmful drugs and their additives for every long term user is a potential addict.
In the abstract of the paper is the following sentence: «We find the depenalization of cannabis had significant longer term impacts on hospital admissions related to the use of hard drugs
State Sen. Liz Krueger, another Manhattan Democrat, has been pushing legislation to legalize and tax recreational use of marijuana, arguing state policy outlawing the drug has been costly in terms of law enforcement resources and the futures of people convicted of crimes.
But Moderna, which has raised billions of dollars on the promise of treating a wide range of diseases with such RNA, first has to prove that its drugs are safe for long - term use.
Building the knowledge base requires humans to teach computers key concepts from curated articles; with modest online training, anyone who reads English can scan research papers for key terms — names of genes, proteins, diseases, and drugs — and use online marking tools to document relationships between them (for example, drug X treats disease Y).
The long term use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), a class of drugs commonly used to treat acid reflux, is linked to a more than doubling in the risk of developing stomach cancer, finds research published online in the journal Gut.
Brahmer emphasizes that the relatively small increase in median survival time with the use of the new immunotherapy drugs may be somewhat misleading in terms of overall impact of the medicines.
Yet the drugs that we encourage and promote the use of and make money from, such as alcohol and tobacco, are, in any way you look at it, the most dangerous medically and in terms of addictiveness and social costs.
The common treatment for this disease is a drug regimen, but it is ineffective in many patients, and the long - term safety of using the drug is unknown.
Benzodiazepines and related drugs can be used in infrequent or short - term treatment of symptoms.
Additionally, long - term hospital stays exceeding four months after hip fracture were more common in persons with Alzheimer's disease who used benzodiazepines and related drugs at the time of hip fracture than in persons who did not use such drugs.
While there is a lot of excitement about the drug, which improved seniors» response to the flu vaccine in a clinical trial last year, there are concerns about its side effects, especially with long - term use.
By combing through tens of thousands of published judicial opinions with the help of 17 law students and three undergraduates, using search terms such as «brain disorder,» «biological,» and «CT scan,» however, Farahany's team found that use of such evidence is growing for a wide range of violations including robbery, fraud, and drug possession.
Because the anti-retroviral drug maraviroc has already been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and has been shown safe for long term, oral use, it could be tested in clinical trials sooner rather than later, says Aleksander Popel, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Cendrug maraviroc has already been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and has been shown safe for long term, oral use, it could be tested in clinical trials sooner rather than later, says Aleksander Popel, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer CenDrug Administration and has been shown safe for long term, oral use, it could be tested in clinical trials sooner rather than later, says Aleksander Popel, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
«Our process could contribute over the long term to use of cereal hemicelluloses with antioxidant activities in many ways, such as non-fossil based packaging, preserving sensitive foods or drugs from oxidation, dietary fibre supplements and texturizing gels in food and cosmetic products.
In a novel animal study design that mimicked human clinical trials, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that long - term treatment using a small molecule drug that reduces activity of the brain's stress circuitry significantly reduces Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology and prevents onset of cognitive impairment in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative condition.
The drop in hormone use dates back to July 2002, when the Women's Health Initiative, a 15 - year study tracking the health of more than 160,000 women, abruptly ended its long - term study of estrogen - progestin hormone replacement therapy because women taking the drugs faced an elevated risk of invasive breast cancer and heart disease.
«It's smaller plants that are using different technologies that are more agile and can shift from developing one medicine to another, it's the development of companion diagnostic technologies that will help identify the people that this particular drug will work best for,» he says, predicting that personalized medicine will create a «different dynamic in terms of how the industry is funded and how medicines are manufactured in the future.»
This year Wyeth Pharmaceutical introduced a lower - dose version of Prempro (with 28 percent less estrogen and 40 percent less progestin) with a warning that the drug should be limited to short - term use.
The % DV is part of the alphabet soup of terms that nutritionists and Food and Drug Administration officials use to describe different ways of looking at nutritional requirements.
Such changes could be due to gastric disease development or the consequence of long - term use of acid - suppressing drugs that cause changes to the stomach pH - levels, i.e. changes that contribute to more rapid adaptation by mutations of H. pylori.
Direct - acting antivirals can control hepatitis C and show promise of long - term cure, but viral mutation to drug resistance is a concern with prolonged use of these drugs.
Darshak Sanghavi, chief of pediatric cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, notes that although the FDA has approved some statins for use in children with a genetic problem leading to high cholesterol, there are no studies on the drugs» long - term side effects in children.
The long - term influence of using telbivudine, especially when compared to the other recommended oral antiviral drug, tenofovir, remains to be explored.
The lack of information about the long - term safety of drugs prescribed for children is a special worry, both for drugs that may be used for decades for chronic conditions and for drugs for which short - term use may be found to harm children's growth and development months or years later.
«Debate: Is the long term use of psychiatric drugs harmful?.»
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